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  • Jul
  • 01
  • 2008

We want LugRadio back !

Guys from LugRadio are ending the show. Let’s prove them they’re wrong ! Contribute to the LugRadio Listeners on Strike and digg this post !

LugRadio is a fortnightly British radio show that takes a relaxed, humorous look at Linux and open source.

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  • Jul
  • 01
  • 2008

10 Useful Apps To Reduce Your Dependency On Google

They are worth being familiar with so that you can avoid a crisis situation when you cannot access a Google product for some reason.

Our writers are great and many maintain blogs of their own. If you've learned from them here, imagine how much you'll learn from visiting their sites!

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  • Jun
  • 12
  • 2008

Firefox Breaking New Ground with Community Support

SUMO (support.mozilla.com) is the new community-powered Firefox user support site. If you have any questions about or problems with Firefox, SUMO is the place to go to find documentation, answers to frequently asked questions, a bustling community forum, and incredibly helpful folks in the new Live Chat facility.

David: Glad you asked! As I mentioned earlier, the heart of SUMO is the Knowledge Base. We are constantly thinking of new ways to improve the content to make it easier for users to understand. As part of this ongoing work, we want to make the…

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  • Jun
  • 09
  • 2008

MacRumorsLive Coverage of WWDC 2008 Keynote

Apple is about to kick off the 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference with their Keynote speech. Live Keynote coverage will be provided at MacRumorsLive.com. iPhone users can visit MacRumorsLive and will be redirected to a specially formatted site.

We will be providing live coverage of Steve Job's Keynote at the Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 10am PDT (UTC - 7).

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  • Jun
  • 09
  • 2008

Live WWDC 2008 Keynote stream presented by iPhone Alley

iPhone Alley will be streaming this year’s WWDC2008 Keynote Address presented by Steve Jobs. Tune in shortly before 10AM PST and watch the keynote LIVE!

As we have no idea what to expect until we actually enter the keynote hall, we may encounter technical problems that inhibit the stream's quality. In the event that the stream does get bad or simply goes down, you can go to Mac Rumors Live…

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  • Jun
  • 09
  • 2008

Apple WWDC ‘08 Keynote Coverage

A comprehensive list of when and where to get coverage of Apple’s keynote this Monday.

“Steve Jobs will kick off the companys annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 9, 2008 at San Franciscos Moscone West. This years WWDC will showcase…

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  • Jun
  • 08
  • 2008

Steve Jobs keynote live from WWDC 2008 - Engadget

Engadget's live coverage of the WWDC '08 keynote.

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  • Jun
  • 03
  • 2008

Google: Android will be 100% open source

Contrary to some reports, everything that makes Android Android?, including all the core platform components and libraries needed to port Android to new devices will be open sourced under commonly used, industry standard licenses, says Google.

A Google employee I talked to felt the need to apologize for this. “We’re not holding it back for any nefarious purpose,” says Dick Wall on the Android team. “We’re simply not ready to publish the…

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  • Jun
  • 01
  • 2008

Its a Myth: Windows Does Not Just Work

One of the most popular myths perpetuated by those who look down on Linux users is that Microsoft Windows just works. In comparison to Uncle Bills OS, getting your computer up and running with any kind of Linux distribution requires many long days and sleepless nights to perfect - a lifestyle choice designed solely for geeks.

The first thing I discovered when I booted into Windows for the first time after installation, Windows XP does not recognise anywhere near as much hardware as Ubuntu Linux does. In fact, with both my Dell machines, and on both XP and Vista, I…

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  • May
  • 25
  • 2008

Free Live Online TV Streams

Most television studios have caught up with the web and made their shows available online, either with their own websites or with an aggregate effort such as Hulu. However most studios are still far away from offering live television online, leaving web users having to revert to an alternative means to source live TV.

The domain Free.tv sounds cool, the developer behind it should offer online live video streams from all the major tv channels to match the potential. But that would require a lot of contacts and contracts. The domain sounds so cool no one is even…

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  • May
  • 25
  • 2008

Microsoft Live Search Cashback Deserves Some Credit

With Live Search Cashback, Microsoft has determined that its willing to take roughly difficult losses to acquire search market cut. Ignoring the bribery, which unavoidably will have towards end, the search engine itself is actually pretty obedient.

The benefit of this program for the merchant is that it’s a cost-per-battle plan for customer acquisition, with the cash bribe coming from the merchant and going into the customer’s description. Usually the search…

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  • May
  • 22
  • 2008

The Empire Strikes Back: Our Analysis Of Microsoft Live Search Cashback

Everyone has an opinion on todays move by Microsoft to shake things up in the search space with their new Live Search Cashback product that shifts search advertising from cost-per-click (CPC) to cost-per-action (CPA) and give a lot of the revenue back to users.

I dont care how much they % cashback they pay out… the bottom line is in the search results…. how effective are they? Can they be easily gamed by webmasters and SEO experts? Are they biased to sites with whom MS has tie…

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  • May
  • 18
  • 2008

Spammer Anti-CAPTCHA operations and Mass-Mailing Strategy - Security Labs Blog

Websense predictions about this strategy, made originally at the time of the Anti-CAPTCHA operations, have proven to be accurate. The spammers are now using these accounts for additional, random attacks that include sophisticated new methods.

Spammer Anti-CAPTCHA operations and Mass-Mailing Strategy

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  • May
  • 06
  • 2008

Blu-ray Hits Bumps in the Road to HD Market Dominance

Blu-ray player sales dropped 40 percent earlier this year and do not seem to have recovered yet. Aside from soaring PlayStation 3 sales, Blu-ray is struggling to take advantage of HD DVDs demise.

Upconverting players. HD players from both contending formats have long had to face questions about whether the quality boost they offer is "good enough" to drive users to make a pricey upgrade away from a DVD player. While the…